Gotcha! Stolen phones don't phone home

Don't file a false report of a crime unless you want to spend some real time behind bars.

Kyle Thomas Gallagher told deputies on August 28th that a man had robbed him at knife point, stealing his cellular phone, Florida driver's license, cash and his green dot debit card in front of a Riverview apartment complex, according to a report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Later, when investigators began checking Gallagher's cell phone records, they said it appeared that the 26-year-old man had been using his stolen cell phone both during and after the time he reported he had been robbed, according to the report.

On Wednesday detectives spotted Gallagher at a bus stop and tried to question him. But since he was uncooperative, detectives arrested him for filling a false report to law enforcement, deputies said,

After his arrest, deputies reportedly found his Florida drivers license, which he had originally reported as stolen during the armed robbery, in his possession.